Recent content by sedrosken

I agree with you that GoG is much closer to ideal, but I frankly don't think it's realistic to expect corporate publishers to ever go to a no-DRM world unless they're dragged kicking and screaming the entire way by some governing body or other. Pandora's box is already open on that front. I'm...

A socketed CPU and PCI-E slot would have made it a fundamentally different sort of machine though, one that'd need adequate cooling and power for the stronger hardware it'd support. It'd nix the form factor and silence of the machine. Maybe that'd be for the best, but it'd be a different sort of...

I don't disagree with that interpretation. It seems a lot of people are taking this as a betrayal. I honestly didn't realize it performed that badly until I saw GN's review with benchmarks, and boy, is this just embarrassing. This loses to a stock PS5. The CPU loses to an R5 3600. The GPU is...

On one hand, I get it, but I personally see the last no-bullshit version of Windows as 2000. And even that had SOME bullshit, i.e. the integration of Internet Explorer.

I was f*cking kidding. Holy crap. It really didn't even make it to Friday.

Yeah, at these prices it's DOA, but when they jacked the Deck to $790 base I honestly figured base model of the Machine would be anywhere from $1250 to $1500. It could have been a lot worse. On the one hand, am I buying it at this price? No. Was I ever going to? Probably not. But especially not...

That's probably what the community installers do, word-for-word. More effort than I want to go to for Windows 7, though.

The reason it wouldn't work is because the official drivers now won't install on 7 out of the box. ;) But yeah, like I said, the retro community (and Windows 7 diehards in general) don't really like taking 'no' for an answer from manufacturers/software devs.

Yes, that would allow access within your LAN. Access from outside the network SHOULD be being blocked by your edge router's firewall. Whether that's acceptable depends how much you trust the devices in your local network, and if you want every single one of them to be able to look at it. It's...

I've got a Retroid Pocket 4 Pro that's basically been just an emulation handheld since Steam Remote Play is, for some reason, really finicky and unfun for me -- and also if I have to run it on my PC anyway, I'd rather just play it on my PC on the bigger screen most of the time. For the games I...

Huh. I either use Jellyfin or just access everything via SMB or NFS. So there WAS once upon a time a reason to have UPnP enabled that wasn't just opening holes in your firewall for funsies.

Actually, 7 can run more-or-less unmodified on up to Skylake, and I think, first-gen Ryzen. You may have to enable legacy boot -- 7's UEFI support is in most situations practically broken as I understand it. The folks in the retro community can basically stuff 7 onto whatever hardware you want...

Doing some research, this is apparently because these are the base models trying to drive 1080p panels with APUs on par with the Deck. For which its own 800p screen was already a challenge.

Have you bought one? I'm wondering what the catch is. I could swing one of these if I sold a couple other things I've got hanging around and I'm honestly tempted to do just that.

Jesus, a quad-blowout on new tires. Is insurance picking any of that up, or would making the claim just raise your premium to more than the tires are worth? And yeah, glad to hear you're physically okay from that. Could have gone way worse. We've got something brewing in the Gulf again. Right...